We advocate for and introduce LEARNSense, a framework for learning analytics using commodity wearable devices to capture learner's physical actions and accordingly infer learner context (e.g., student activities and engagement status in class). Our work is motivated by the observations that: (a) the fine-grained individual-specific learner actions are crucial to understand learners and their co...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are being used across the world to provide millions of learners with access to education. Many who begin these courses complete them successfully, or to their own satisfaction, but the high numbers who do not finish remain a subject of concern. In 2013, a team from Stanford University analyzed engagement patterns on three MOOCs run on the Coursera platform. T...

Learners have to engage in academically purposeful instructional endeavors be successful school. Latest research indicates that the learners of today are not as interested educational deeds they need be. Educational stakeholders should look for means address this tendency a positive influence on results. This study explores practices play role behavioral engagement (also known involvement) scho...

Video lectures in massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide an opportunity to not only deliver instructional content but also engage learners. While there are many different styles of video lectures, it is clear how affect learner engagement. This study analysed and critiqued typologies classified MOOC on a speaker-centric media-centric spectrum. A total 1372 survey responses were used for da...

In this paper we present a theoretical framework describing an original method for the design of intelligent tutoring environments, building upon the notion of shared attention to scaffold learner engagement. This framework, defined as the Levels of Interaction (LoI) approach, places a focus upon using techniques derived from leisure and serious games in order to foster engagement with the lear...